Soto v. Gaudett

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding the use of force unreasonable where the plaintiff was “flat on his face” and tased while he “posed no physical threat to the officers”
• finding no precedent “that a suspect who was fleeing had a right not to be stopped by means of a TASER”
• affirming trial court’s determination that assessment of defendants’ credibility required jury trial and that Court could not, therefore, grant summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity
• “Though [a] use of force may be reasonable against 3 To be sure, police are not required, in all circumstances, to take a fleeing suspect’s “apparent surrender at face value.” Johnson v. Scott, 576 F.3d 658, 660 (7th Cir. 2009

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McKinney v. City of Middletown
  Second Circuit· 2022-09-26· cited 123×
• Francis v. Fiacco
  Second Circuit· 2019-11-12· cited 98×
• Jones v. Treubig
  Second Circuit· 2020-06-26· cited 96×
• National Rifle Association of America v. Maria T. Vullo
  Second Circuit· 2022-09-22· cited 24×
• Omega SA v. 375 Canal, LLC
  Second Circuit· 2021-01-06· cited 22×
• Jennings v. Decker
  N.D. New York· 2019-01-17· cited 12×
• DeCastro v. City of New York
  S.D. New York· 2017-09-30· cited 10×
• Lee-Walker v. New York City Department of Education
  Second Circuit· 2017-10-17· cited 9×
• Jones v. Muniz
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-11-21· cited 1×
• Palin v. The New York Times Company
  Second Circuit· 2019-10-15

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• Kentucky v. Graham
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-28· cited 11,385×
• Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-20· cited 10,863×
• Mitchell v. Forsyth
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8,858×
• Tennessee v. Garner
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-27· cited 4,272×
• Johnson v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-12· cited 2,857×
• Reichle v. Howards
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-04· cited 2,745×
• Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1962-02-19· cited 2,575×
• Behrens v. Pelletier
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-21· cited 2,084×
• Owen v. City of Independence
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-02· cited 2,083×
• Tracy v. Freshwater
  Second Circuit· 2010-10-14· cited 1,808×
• Brower Ex Rel. Estate of Caldwell v. County of Inyo
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-21· cited 1,476×
• Lore v. City of Syracuse
  Second Circuit· 2012-02-02· cited 573×
• Ying Jing Gan v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 1993-06-01· cited 518×
• Robert Escalera v. Glenna Lunn, Individually, Louis Crisci, Individually, Rocco A. Pozzi, Individually, and the County of Westchester, New York
  Second Circuit· 2004-03-18· cited 368×
• Maria Salim, Administratrix of the Estate of Eric Reyes, I/o v. William Proulx
  Second Circuit· 1996-08-23· cited 331×
• Terebesi v. Torreso
  Second Circuit· 2014-08-21· cited 272×
• Agosto v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 211×
• Rogoz v. City of Hartford
  Second Circuit· 2015-08-10· cited 178×